The ongoing economic menus and the authoritar Fuhrungstyle of Prasident Basescu remain the violent riots in Romania
The most violent protest wave in Romania for more than a decade has not left so far. Also last Thursday, thousands of demonstrators gathered in several bads to protest against Prasident Traian Basescu and the miserable economic situation. Against evening, Bucharest again came to severe riots, as they shook the capital already in mid-January. Meanwhile, the rat traps of the right-wing extremist rights in Romania (protests against IWF politics in Romania) are also true of instrumentalizing the protests for their chauvinist and authoritarian goals. So the riots in Bucharest should often be provoked by right Fubballhooligans.
However, the initial cover this protest wave was — without any attraction of Romanian rights — the rage over a privatization offensive of the commercial autocratically promoting Romanian prassides. The riots were drawn by a health care reform, which provided the privatization of the rescue service and woke up in many Romanians, that artificially only those emergency patients can pay for rapid help, which can also afford it.
President Traian Basescu at a press release on 13. January. Image: Presidency.RO
The protests came in progress after the Romanian head of state has a popular high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Health, the births Palastian Read Arafat, after this has criticized the privatization planes. The demonstrators first organized themselves on social networks in which to protests against the "Destruction of the rescue service" was called and the fast more than 100.000 supporter found.
In the meantime, the health care reform of the Romanian government was returned to the statement of the Prasident, and Read Arafat should also be used again in the Ministry of Health. But the persistent protests are fed by the broad displeasure of the economic dies and the increasingly autoritanese and undemocratic government style by Prasident Basescu. The demand for a jerkiness of the head of state of the state — which is responsible for the persistent saving terror in Romania — has been established within the protest movement. In fact, Basescu has been able to achieve, bypassing and noise of the catching, his office "actual power center" to expand the country:
The design for the controversial health reform comes from the company of the Prasident. Basescu holds advisers for each department, which act as ministers and pretend to the trade ministries. According to the beginning, the Prasident actually has no right to legislative initiatives. In fact, Basescu has expanded its office in its seven-year term to the actual power center. He appoints de facto minister and sets them off. He controls government and parliament over his liberal democratic party.
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The Romanian head of state of state under obvious law prevention already a powerful pure, which also strive to Hungary Nationalists about head of government Viktor Orban. However, while the EU has meanwhile enhanced prere on the rights in Budapest, the Author’s activities remain largely unnoticed in Romanian Prasident’s Palace, the Palatul Cotroceni, Brussel.
This disinterest of Europe at Erosion Burrich-Democratic Minimum Standards in Romania was related to the different policy, which is operated in Bucharest and Budapest. During the Volkian-blinded, protofashist rulers in Hungary (Hungary: "Culture of fascism") At the course of confrontation to Brussels, and for example crisis taxes for the dominant western banks and trading companies implemented, as well as the control over the Hungarian central Bank wanted to take over, Romania’s authoritarian head of state is committed by a possible accurate implementation of the EU’s policy requirements and the IMF.
Romania had to be preserved as well as Hungary after crisis outbreak of a comprehensive credit package of the IMF and the EU before the collapse. In both cases, the payment of the individual credit tranches was coupled to draconal shooters, which led to a compaction of the recession in both countries. After his election victory in Hungary dear but Orban 2010 refer the IMF of the country. The Hungarian nationalists hoped the household renovation by means of said "Crisery" For Western Groups, the nationalization of the previously partial pension system as well as an increase in VAT on dizzying 27 percent. The failure of these strategy with nationalist subtons has already been apparent in the past November, when Orban had to compete his Canossagang for the IMF to apply for billions of loans. Meanwhile, in the face of the escalating debt crisis, Orban can hardly be fast enough to bring Hungary back under the wing of the formerly hated perceive fund.
Sparing decreases the living conditions
Basescu, on the other hand, has previously enforced the most brutally brutal shortages in Europe for the highest level of the IMF: since 2009, the salhers were raised by 25 percent in Romania’s public service, as well as the value added tax increased by funf percent, the pensioners away with hunger tenders had to freeze their pensions accept, which is equivalent in view of an inflation rate of more than three percent of a creeping pension scheduction. Also the "Health care reform", On which the youngest protests religious, was initiated on printing of the Fund of Basescu.
This saving terror resulted in a two-year economic slap, which in 2009 the Romanian gross domestic product of 7.2 and 2010 shrink by 1.2 percent. Last year, Romania reported government’s forecasts growth of almost two to 2.5 percent, which is mainly due to rising exports and a good harvest, but too little was to improve the focus of the social situation in the country in the face of continued shooting records.
The Romanians had "economic growth did not feel last year, but they could perceive the downturn in 2012", Tit the Wirtschaftsblatt Zarul Financiar. People between Transsilvania and Walachei endeauded due to austerity policy for three years an existing deterioration of their livelihoods, only to be confronted with an economic downturn this year.
In fact, about the World Bank has revised its growth forecasts for Romania in the face of globally deteriorating economic outlook from 3.7 to 1.5 percent. It is precisely this, hopelessness of the capitalist duration crisis that drives the desperate people in Romania spitting on the barricades. Romania will continue with a minimum wage of around 162 euros, the EU’s poor house of the EU. The traumes of a rapid improvement in the economic situation after accession to the EU have long been woken up. For a young survey carried out, about 57 percent of all respondents said that the situation in their country had worsened in recent years, only 11 percent saw an improvement. The bulky concern prepared the survey participants the future of their children.
Despite all savings, Bucharest is again on the abyss
But even the debt crisis is in Romania did not overwound. On the contrary, although the Rosskur, Brussels and the IMF Romania administered from 2009, was limited to two years and Bucharest could actually reduce its budget deficit under coarse social victims from more than seven percent of GDP expected 4.4 percent, is the country still instructed on financial noise.
Due to the continuing pre-precarious financial position of the country, which in the refinancing of its debts in almost exclusively on foreign funds on the world financial markets, Bucharest had to be another one in mid-2011 "Praventiv agreement" With the IMF, which provides for the payment of around five billion euros at FinanceGens. As a result, Bucharest also remains bound to the policy requirements of the IMF, which guarantees its implementation by regular inspections. Due to the escalating euro crisis, Buchares, T now rely on the IMF funds, as Lucian Croitoru, a consultant of the National Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu, exported at the end of December:
Rumania was able to become the first victim of the debt crisis, which in these days the eurozone was taught when foreign banks, who are in high capital nodes as a result of the problems in the West, are part of the sums that they are currently awarding the government in Bucharest as a loan back up.
Due to the re-inspired debt crisis, Romanian preservation is always falling against opposite euros, which further increased the debts of the country incorporated in foreign exchange. Despite all savings, Bucharest is again on the abyss.
Crisis policy is complicated by the peripheral location of Hungary and Romania
At this point, a comparison is worthwhile with the situation in Hungary, which is again tumbling on the edge of a government. As different as the approaches of Orban and Basescu were, the results are similar: both strategies of systemic capitalist crisis fighting have failed. Orban like Basescu are confronted with increasing economic disproportions, a new financial crisis and a growing protest movement. Neither the nationalist-motivated confrontation of orbans with Brussel and IMF, nor the authoritar cooperation course of a Basescu could prevent the emerging sociooconomic disaster in Romania and Hungary. This equally devastating result of very different crisis strategies in Hungary and Romania illustrates the marginal manovrier field that remains the capitalist crisis policy in the face of the system crisis.
The options of the policy core in both states are still contributed in addition to the peripheral position of Hungary and in particular Romania within the EU. Both in Hungary and Romania is a coarse part of the industry and the financial sector under control of Western coarse corporations, which leads to rapid influenues of capital and relocation in the crisis. This peripheral position actually involves all Eastern European EU countries in different dependence. In this region soon one could "Disappointment on capitalism occurs, with the disillusionment of communism" Comparable goods, uractively warns, as the western banks were increasingly investing in Eastern Europe due to the euro crisis.
Eastern Europe threatens one "Credential", The western banks were allowed to concentrate in the crisis focus on their core labels in the West and try to achieve the EU specifications of a stronger recapitalization. Similarly, it concerns direct investment, which also remove rapidly. In Romania, direct investment from the West even reached 7.2 billion euros in 2007. At that time, the country was in a so-called deficit economy — ie in a debt-financed upswing that was fired by the assessing lending western banks. After economic full braking in 2009, direct investment shrank rapidly to exceed only 2.5 billion euros in 2010. Last year, these should also have fallen under two billion euros.
The crisis-associated global displacement competition in the economy also leads to operating bonds and masses in Romania. Many internationally operating corporations that previously poured on labor-intensive operations or production processes to Romania from Western Europe, the Romanian hunger broadshouses are now too high.
The most famous is the example of the mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, who likes his cellphone production from Bochum 2008 to Romania to shut up to this work in 2011 and to relocate production to Vietnam. Previously, Nestle, Colgate, Kraft Foods, Coca Cola and Tnuva have been sealing their Romanian sites tightly and exchanging business in unemployment.
Operating relocations motivated by the crisis-related intensive displacement competition will already love the official unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2011 to 7.7 percent increase, against 6.9 percent in the same period of the previous year. In view of the predicted economic drainage, the army of the overflow and marginalized in Romania, as in Eastern Europe, was allowed to swell further — and with him the desperation and the blind rage are growing, which is currently unloading on the Bucharests Strahn.